Re: Unicode fonts

George,

Thanks for the links. The license says I can't distribute it. Having a 
secondary font that covers most of what , like GNU Unifont, is more 
important than quality.

Thanks for the tip about ViewGlyph. I found it here:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ViewGlyph_home

This will be invaluable. The jEdit 'Character Map' shows the Unicode 
blocks, but this one lets me quickly load fonts and scroll top to bottom.

In fact, it _has already been_ invaluable. I'm getting some education 
out of it. The 'View' field is taking some mystery out of Windows 
character display (1252?) versus the Unicode display.

There's this GNU Unifont 'unifont_upper-10.0.07.ttf' which is in some 
upper range of Unicode. Nothing showed up in 'Character Map', but is 
taking the mystery out of that. 'Glyph IDs', 'Windows UCS-4', and 'Apple 
Unicode Unknown (4)' all show the glyphs. I don't need this font, but at 
least I get to see something, rather than, "Hmmm, I don't see anything. 
What's up with this upper stuff?"

Also, pursuing things a little bit more here, it helped me see I 
shouldn't install any of my 'lib/fonts/DejaVuSansMono...ttf' fonts in 
Windows.

I did that to customize Notepad++ as a normal user, but I uninstalled 
DejaVu fonts from Windows. I want guarantees that what I'm seeing is 
coming from the JRE 'lib/fonts' folder.

Thanks,
GB



On 2/13/2018 9:54 PM, George Hovey wrote:
> OK Gottfried, I see your problem is complex.
>
> Just a few points that may be of use.
>
> 1. UTF-8 encoding is for Unicode only.
>
> 2. Authoritative Unicode info is at UNICODE.ORG <http://UNICODE.ORG>
>
> 3. Take a look at Erler Dingbats 
> (http://ffdingbatsfont.com/erler/index.html).  This is a free Unicode 
> offering with a glyph for every codepoint assigned to Dingbats.  Glyph 
> index:
> http://ffdingbatsfont.com/glyph-set/pdf/ffdingbats2_0.pdf
>
> 4. You might want to hunt down the font utility SIL ViewGlyph.
>
> George
>
>
>

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